Search PDFs using WASM in the browser

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pdfgrep.org is a CLI tool I use a lot to reference documents from classes. I’ve been playing around with Emscripten and I wanted to make a UI version of the tool. All documents stay local so there is no upload time, and search time is similar to the native binary. Click on a search result to open a preview of the PDF. Any feedback would be much appreciated. Dockerfile source code (warning: very shit): https://github.com/rawsh/pdfgrep-wasm

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